The Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 is 900 pages long. But you can read it in condensed comic book form, subject by subject, in your own time, at Stop Project 2025. (via Metafilter)
5 Inventions That Came Out of the Great Depression.
Death as a Child: The Modern Legend of the Black-Eyed Children.
Star Wars Geek Builds Rideable and Fully Functional AT-AT.
The pickled dragon hoax that fooled the world. The way to pull off a hoax is to claim it's someone else's hoax. (via Damn Interesting)
"It's Election Day, Charlie Brown." The latest from Tom the Dancing Bug.
Atmospheric phenomenon Steve spotted over south-east SA following Aurora Australis. (via Metafilter)
Good to know that something good came out of the Great Depression! The masking tape and scotch tape entry was particularly interesting.
ReplyDeleteExcuse the Latin, but those antipodes islands are really great at naming geographical areas, don't you think ?
ReplyDeleteSouth Australia is a state of Australia.
And then there are the main islands of New Zealand, the North Island, and the South Island.
I guess after six months in a leaky boat they were running short of adjectives.
Re: the 2025 project. I don't remember who showed me this, but here:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojr4ryZZzpY